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Residents of Kanuru seek laying of road through college

Residents of Kanuru staging a protest in Vijayawada on Sunday. —Photo: Ch.Vijaya Bhaskar

The row over laying a road through V.R. Siddhartha
Engineering College took a new turn with the residents of Kanuru staging
a demonstration outside the college campus on Sunday.

Protestors,
including residents of colonies located on either side of Pantakaluva
Road, which is being newly laid requested the college management to
cooperate with the government authorities and allow them to construct
the road which would serve as a parallel road to the busy and narrow
Bandar Road.

The government recently took up
expansion and development of the Pantakaluva Road which was ignored for
years, after clearing the encroachments on the stretch from Autonagar to
Kanuru and the project is nearing completion. From Penamaluru police
station, the road is supposed to pass through the college campus,
following the path of ‘Pantakaluva’, the dried up irrigation stream that
ends at the Tadigadapa-Enikepadu road.

“If the
college paves the way for the road, a parallel road will be created
easing traffic on the Bandar Road,” said a protesting local resident.

Meanwhile,
students and management of the college expressed concern that allowing
traffic through the college premises would cause disturbance to
thousands of students studying here.